Scuba Diving at Barracuda Reef, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
My Wife and I did a couple of dives while spending a weekend in Ft. Lauderdale. It is a nice slow drift dive.
Surrounded by 29 mooring buoys--the first markers to be installed in Broward County--Barracuda reef is an excellent spot for fish-watching. Located a half-mile out from the John U. Lloyd State Recreational Area, this reef lies in 35 feet of water. The site has a high profile reef ledge that rises 10 to 15 feet from the bottom. This reef offers a sight similar to that of reefs in the Florida Keys with a healthy concentration of stag horn, star, and brain corals. Fish life is plentiful and lobsters, crabs, and moray eels can be found underneath ledges that rise about four feet from the bottom. Boat traffic is heavy in the area and divers should exercise caution when exploring this reef.
Filmed by Oleg Kaplun using GoPro Hero 2. Two Lights & Motion Sola 2000 Lights. Backscatter Red Filter
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Scuba Girl Dives the Wreck Trek in Fort Lauderdale, FL... She Gets a BIG Surprise!
Something stalks Scuba Girl underwater in this awesome wreck diving video!!
Scuba Diving Hog Heaven - Fort Lauderdale, FL - May 2018
Fun wreck dive a couple of weeks ago in Florida.
Diving USS Copenhagen in Lauderdale Florida (Deans Dive Center Fort Myers FL)
Diving the USS Copenhagen in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea / Pompano Beach Florida. Dive trip with Deans Dive Center in Fort Myers FL and dove with South Florida Dive Headquarters on the Black Pearl. We dove the SS Copenhagen and the Nursery.
COPENHAGEN
Type of Dive: Mooring Buoy / Drift
Depth Range: 15-30 ft
Skill Level: Open Water Diver or Snorkeler
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Description: The SS Copenhagen was a steamer 325' long with a beam of 47'. The wreck is broken up along the eastern side of the Pompano Drop Off. While some of the wreckage is buried you can still make out many features of the wreck. It is nostalgic diving or snorkeling a wreck site over a hundred years old. Usually you see large schools of bait fish being chased by the rest of the food chain.
History: The British cargo ship Copenhagen was built by Priestman & Co. of Sunderland in 1898. The Copenhagen was owned by Glasgow Ship Owners Co. While en route from Philadelphia to Havana with 4,940 tons of coal, she ran aground on the Pompano Drop Off. Although the ship was unsalvageable, her cargo was saved. The Copenhagen remained partially visible above the water until WWII naval fighter pilots used her for target practice sending her to the bottom where she sits today. The Copenhagen was declared a State Underwater Archaeological Preserve in 1994.
NURSERY
Type of Dive: Mooring Buoy / Drift
Depth Range: 15-30 ft
Skill Level: Open Water Diver or Snorkeler
Location: Pompano Beach (ridge complex)
Description: We named this site the Nursery many years ago after the family of nurse sharks that reside here. There is good habitat here, with large under cut ledges. The sharks are used to divers and snorkelers and usually swim around under the boat. Hundreds of other fish surround the snorkelers on the surface..Occasionally we see the resident morey eel. The Nursery has been featured in numerous T.V. shows and magazines.
Navigation: The Nursery is usually an anchor dive, because most participants want to stay and interact with the nurse sharks. However take a flag and venture down the ledge and come back for more shark action. This is the best shallow dive in SE Florida!
Scuba Diving Lauderdale by the Sea
Lauderdale by the Sea on a bad day with viz about 10ft but we made lemonade out of lemons
SCUBA Diving - Beach Dive off Hollywood Beach Florida
While SCUBA diving in places like the Keys, Bahamas or Cayman Islands are much more scenic and colorful, one advantage of living the past 30+ years in South Florida is the ability to beach dive whenever you have some spare time.
In much of the United States, there is really not much to see underwater within swimming distance of the shoreline.
But in South Florida (starting approximately at the West Palm Beach and southward region), you can strap on your tanks and gear, swim out about 500 yards with a dive flag in tow and drop down to 20-25 feet and spend 90 minutes underwater enjoying the northern-most edges of the tropical reefs that become larger and more scenic as you head into the true tropics of the Caribbean.
So while it may not be as grand and colorful and a full blown dive vacation to the islands, it is nearby and cheap.
At a moments notice, you can throw your tanks and gear in the car -- drive 30 minutes to the beach -- and be exploring the reefs within the hour.
Figure $4 for an air fill and $6 for a slice of pizza and soda when you get back on land and it makes for a great inexpensive way to spend the day for $10.
This video shows what lies underwater just a few hundred yards offshore at Hollywood Beach Florida.
This beach is pretty much equidistant between Fort Lauderdale and Miami Beach along the East Coast.
A much quieter and less populated beach area as the video reveals (although sadly, signs of urban sprawl are getting closer each year)
Enjoy.
Lauderdale shore diving, Fort Lauderdale Coral Reef, Florida diving
Lauderdale-by-the-sea: the shore dive capital of South Florida. One of the best shore snorkeling and diving places in Florida is near the end of the Anglin's pier (the south side). We usually go to get this reef from Datura ave (one block south off Commercial blvd.) Stay 300 feet away from the pier. This reef has plenty of fish: Black Margate, Spadefish, various Snapper, Angelfish, Damsels, Wrasses, Parrotfish, Nurse Sharks, Butterflyfish, Sergeant Majors, Sea Turtle, Cuttlefish, Barracuda, Trumpet Fish, French Angels, Blue Angels,Doctorfish, Blue Headed Wrasse, Tarpon.etc. Also there are couple of artificial coral reefs - just go little south from end of the pier. Please, don't fish! If you have mask and snorkel it's good enough to just observe the beautiful wildlife on the reef and don't touch anything!
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Miami Snorkeling South Pointe Beach
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Scuba Diving in Miami Beach Florida
I've been scuba diving all around the world, but this was my first time ever diving in America! Water is California is cold so I never did it, but here in Florida, it's 77 degrees f, or 26c which isn't too bad. Follow the blog at for updates and follow the journey.
Scuba Diving in Miami Beach Florida at Neptune Reef Dive Cemetery/Memorial.
Dive company was Tarpoon Lagoon Dive Shop.
Equipment was a GoPro Hero Plus LCD with a Red Filter.
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Ft. Lauderdale Coral Reef Snorkel
Coral Reef near Miami, Florida; about .25 of a mile offshore.
Fort Lauderdale Snorkling trip
snorkling with the crew at sea experience, march 2010. If anyone knows the name of the fishes, leave a comment, please.
Snorkeling the Florida Reef
Subscribe to MonkeySee for more great videos: Check out the best place to snorkel in the U.S., the Florida Reef off Lou Key in the Florida Keys.
Scuba Diving Oakland Park Reef | Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Scuba Diving Oakland Park Reef | Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The Oakland Park Reef in Fort Lauderdale is the northern section of the popular Vista Park Reef. There are two reefs divers can explore here. The wide 200-yard patch reef that starts about 400 feet from the beach, and the Oakland Park Reef that’s about 420 yards from the beach.
Check out the link below for information and directions to Oakland Park Reef
Scuba Diving Oakland Park Reef | Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Scuba Diving at Silver Springs, Florida
As part of the Silver Springs Professional Dive team, here is our view from below the surface.
Scuba Diving in Key Largo, Florida: Molasses Reef, French Reef, Benwood & Spiegle Grove dive sites
The most frequently visited dive site in the Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary, and likely the world, is known as Molasses Reef. During World War II, near midnight on April 9th, 1942, the Norwegian merchant freighter Benwood was on a routine path from Florida to Virginia, transporting a load of phosphate rock. It was running with no lights to avoid being spotted by German U-boats, which was common for ships throughout the war. The Spiegle Grove ship is enormous and much larger than any natural reef structure in the Keys. In fact, at the time of its sinking, the Spiegel Grove was the largest ship ever intentionally sunk to create a new reef for divers, and it remains one of the largest ships ever scuttled for that purpose.
Snorkeling with Sea Experience in Ft. Lauderdale Florida.
A recent snorkeling trip we took in Ft. Lauderdale Fla. The trip was chartered through Sea Experience and we were treated very well. Shot using GoPro Hero 2 in underwater dive housing.
Top walk off the beach snorkel spots South Florida! Vid 1 of 3 (Fort Lauderdale)
Join myself, and bae as we meet some new gills over the coral, and under the pier
Diving Lauderdale with the American Dream II
Diving the Jay Scutti and Oakland Park Reef in Ft Lauderdale, Fl
Snorkeling at Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida with Sea Experience